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Create Visio Diagrams and Word Docs of your Opalis Workflows

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I just thought I'd give a shout out to Bruno Saille, one of our Senior Systems Engineers in France, who developed the "Opalis VSD Generator". Since I saw the first version of this tool just over a week ago, Bruno has made a LOT of improvements to it. It's really not fair to call it the "VSD Generator" anymore since it now also exports Word docs. It's really cool and can really save you a lot of time if you're needing to document your workflows.

It's really simple to use, with a quick configuration dialog:

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…and a simple tree view:

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…and one click to quickly generate a Visio diagram:

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You can get the latest release at the Opalis CodePlex site: https://opalis.codeplex.com/releases/view/57084

Enjoy!

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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
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    December 15, 2010
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  • Anonymous
    December 16, 2010
    As the author of the tool, I can add a few comments on the "network access": It just means that the machine running the tool needs to have IP connectivity to the servers running the Management Server and/or the Database (as they might be different servers). Firewall exceptions must allow access to the network share on the Management Server (to the "extensions path" to export images) and also to the SQL Server database over classic SQL ports. As Robert said, this tool has only been tested with a SQL Server installation, and I don't think the SQL connection string would work against an Oracle installation. If you still have issues running the tool on the tested configurations, please send me an email (see the contact information in the documentation), and I'll try to investigate. Thanks